During his Hall H panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, Joss Whedon announced that he’s teaming with Dark Horse comics to create a new six-issue series entitled Twist. Speaking about the upcoming project, Whedon revealed that, “[Twist] deals with the most important moral question facing us, which is: why isn’t there a Victorian […]
The Week in Spandex – San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Edition
In this (abridged) edition of The Week in Spandex, we round up all the big superhero news coming out of the San Diego Comic-Con… Well, the curtain has fallen on the geek mecca that is San Diego Comic-Con for another year, and over the past four days we’ve been treated to a wealth of superhero […]
SDCC: Sam Raimi on the new Spider-Man reboot
Over the weekend we heard the first comments from The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb about Sony’s decision to reboot the franchise alongside Marvel Studios – with Webb admitting that he’s “sad to surrender” the series – and now another former Spidey filmmaker has shared his opinion on the latest take on the wall-crawler. “It’s […]
SDCC: The Flash and Aquaman getting Earth One graphic novels
Yesterday during the DC Entertainment: Meet the Co-Publishers panel at the San Diego Comic-Con International, Jim Lee and Dan DiDio announced that The Flash and Aquaman are both set to receive the Earth One graphic novel treatment next year. Flash: Earth One is set to be penned by J. Michael Straczynski (Superman: Earth One), while […]
SDCC: Toby Kebbell talks Doctor Doom in Fantastic Four
Back in November, Toby Kebbell revealed that the iconic Marvel villain Doctor Doom would undergo a reimagining in Josh Trank’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, with the actor stating that the character would be “Victor Domashev… I’m a programmer. Very anti-social programmer. And on blogging sites I’m ‘Doom’”. Naturally this didn’t go down very well with […]
SDCC: Warner Bros. unveils new DC/Vertigo logos for Arrow, Gotham, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, The Flash, iZombie and Lucifer
On Saturday night, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment showcased their various DC / Vertigo television shows in Hall H at the San Diego Comic-Con; we’ve already brought you video of the panels that took place [watch them here], and now WB has debuted its update logo treatments for Arrow, Gotham, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, […]
SDCC: Marvel announces new female Blade
Marvel has announced today at the San Diego Comic-Con that it is to launch a new ongoing Blade series from writer Tim Seeley and artist Logan Faerber with an all-new female hero as the Daywalker teams with his teenage daughter, a high school student called Fallon Grey. “As much as I had to deal with […]
Denis Leary says The Amazing Spider-Man 3 could have seen Spidey resurrecting the dead
Yes, you did read that headline correctly… If you needed another reason to be thankful that Sony is rebooting the Spider-Man franchise with Marvel Studios, then The Amazing Spider-Man star Denis Leary has it for you. According to the actor, who played Captain George Stacy in the two Marc Webb directed movies, The Amazing Spider-Man […]
Nicole Perlman on writing Captain Marvel and avoiding “Superman with boobs”
Back in April it was confirmed that Guardians of the Galaxy screenwriter Nicole Perlman would be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as co-writer on Captain Marvel with Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), and Perlman has been speaking with Wired about penning Marvel’s first female-led superhero movie, and avoiding “Superman with boobs.” We’ve been talking a […]
SDCC: M. Night Shyamalan is still keen on an Unbreakable sequel, but “it has to be a completely original take”
Despite the fact that the movie was released fifteen years ago, it seems that M. Night Shyamalan can’t go a couple of months without being asked about the possibility of a sequel to Unbreakable, and sure enough IGN put the question to the filmmaker once again this weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con. “The short […]
